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Mishawaka-Penn-Harris Public Library — Granger's library district; the Enterprise film, the holdings list, the Harris Branch file
What it is: this ground's library is a district seated in Mishawaka: the Mishawaka-Penn-Harris Public Library, district of Penn and Harris townships, its seven-member appointed board verified member by member in November 2026, the district's expansion into Harris Township recorded in the State Library's legal file in 2001. Its Harris Branch — 51446 Elm Road, Granger's branch — opened in 2004, a date the Government pass settled from the dedication-year coverage; the exact dedication date remains a named gap with the library's own board minutes as settler (GAP-GOV-7). For this build the system's holdings are the point: the published county newspaper list that ran the press frame test, the Enterprise film run of 1858–2019, and the Harris Branch local-history file named as settler for the practitioner century no other record covers (GAP-HLT-1). Its Long-Range Plan 2023–2027 carries the branch's own present — renovation scheduled, notices current to October 2026.
Its standing, from this build's experience: a library's published holdings list is a first-class instrument — a catalogue claim the library stakes its name on — and this build used it as one, in preference to sampling. The branch line itself is a small lesson in the build's boundary discipline: the district's Bittersweet Branch is Mishawaka's; the Harris Branch is Granger's, and the two are never merged.
Where it fails: a catalogue proves a holding, not a reading: the film's Granger course stands unread (GAP-NEWS-7), and the local-history file's contents stand at the strength of a named settler, not of a consulted file.
Sources:
- MPHPL — board record and Long-Range Plan 2023–2027 (mphpl.org), read November 2026; Indiana State Library, Changes to Indiana Public Library Districts (2001 entry).